I came to poetry through the urgent need to denounce injustice, exploitation, humiliation. I know that's not enough to change the world. But to remain silent would have been a kind of intolerable complicity.
“When great changes occur in history, when great principles are involved, as a rule the majority are wrong.”
“My mother always told me, even if a song has been done a thousand times, you can still bring something of your own to it. I'd like to think I did that.”